The Irish Country House

The decline and fall of the dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948

Love, war, debt and madness

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This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland’s premier aristocratic family – the dukes of Leinster – who, for almost 300 years, lived...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley

Irish demesne landscapes, 1660–1740

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This book charts the history and development of formal gardening in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and in particular the grand geometric style that...
Author/Editor: Vandra Costello

Borris House, Co. Carlow, and elite regency patronage

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Borris House, situated in the small town of Borris in Co. Carlow, is the ancestral home of the MacMurrough Kavanagh family. The family have had a residence...
Author/Editor: Edmund Joyce

East Galway agrarian agitation and the burning of Ballydugan House, 1922

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Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History. This book is based on the burning of Ballydugan house in 1922, a middle-sized country house on a 1,500-acre...
Author/Editor: Ann O'Riordan

Music and dancing at Castletown, Co. Kildare, 1759–1821

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Castletown, near Celbridge in Co. Kildare, was the home of the Right Honourable Thomas Conolly and his wife Lady Louisa Augusta (née Lennox). As a well-connected, high-society couple,...
Author/Editor: Karol Mullaney-Dignam